Word: yang
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...Yang did cite several examples of misconduct in a six-page statement explaining what led to his refusal to file an appeal...
...Yang also wrote that the Chinese prison had denied him private visits with his lawyer and family members...
Last April the U.S. State Department investigated allegations that Yang was a victim of abuse and human rights violations in the Beijing prison where he has been held for almost two years...
Yang’s wife, Harvard medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has said that Yang was placed in solitary confinement with handcuffs until his hands became bloodied and infected following his attempts to protest his detention...
...Yang was initially arrested in Kunming on April 26, 2002, after entering China with a friend’s passport and using a fake identification card. Yang had been banned from China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests for democracy...